hair-brown

English

Adjective

hair-brown (comparative more hair-brown, superlative most hair-brown)

1. Of a colour like brown human hair.
   • 1833, Prideaux John Selby, Illustrations of British Ornithology: Water birds, page 80:

     The rump and upper tail-coverts white; the tips of some of the latter with a hair-brown spot.

   • 1842, Sir William Jardine, The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, page 208:

     […] having the plumage intermixed with a hair-brown tint […]